Just Too Much News; It's Not All That Uncommon To Hear Voices -- NBC

There's just too much news to report so just a lot of quick links. Most of the local links come from Don. The "political" / economic links come from Drudge.

The Dickinson Press reports the new retailers coming to new Dickinson mall:

The developer of the Five Diamond retail center in west Dickinson announced Wednesday that the area planned for development will include a slew of retailers, including Cash Wise Food and Cash Wise Liquor, JoAnn Fabrics, Petco and Dollar Tree, in addition to a new 10-screen movie theater that had already been announced.

Developer Ron Raddon of Utah presented a preliminary plat application to the Dickinson Planning and Zoning Commission at its regular meeting Wednesday at City Hall. The plat was approved unanimously.

Generally Debbie Downer includes a fracking note in all articles, but I didn't see anything about fracking in this article. 

The Dickinson Press is reporting that Dunn County is struggling with definition of "temporary" as in "temporary housing." No action taken on temporary housing but will be discussed again in October.

Bloomberg is reporting progress in "equal pay for equal work." In no other area is pay more equal for the sexes than in waiting tables. LOL. All things being equal, if a woman is not getting more in tips than a man waiting tables, there is something incredibly wrong:

Unemployment data appear to reflect big advances for women. The jobless rate in August for females 20 years and older was 6.3 percent, the lowest since December 2008, compared with 7.1 percent for men. As recently as January, the rate was 7.3 percent for both genders, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The downside is that the gains have been largely in lower-paying industries such as waitresses, in-home health care, food preparation and housekeeping. About 60 percent of the increase in employment for women from 2009 to 2012 was in jobs that pay less than $10.10 an hour, compared with 20 percent for men, according to a study by the National Women’s Law Center using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Sales of guns soar in gun-free Washington, D.C. areas, after Navy Yard shootings. Unarmed Americans would like to be able to defend themselves when attacked by paranoid schizophrenics who pass background checks and keep their "secret clearances."  By the way, did you all see that NBC report that "hearing voices is not all that unusual"? The headline says it all. Of course it's not all that unusual for NBC talking heads to hear voices. That's because they are all wearing little ear plugs that send talking points to them from their producers. Helloooo! NBC: we're talking about folks who hear voices and don't wear headphones. We're talking about folks who get radio transmissions through their teeth. Hellooooo! We're talking about folks who hear voices telling them to kill innocent men, women, and children. So, here is what NBC is reporting:

Such hallucinations are the hallmark of psychiatric disorders; about 75 percent of those diagnosed with schizophrenia experience voices that they can't explain. They’re also common in up to half of cases of bipolar disorder and in about 40 percent of post-traumatic stress disorder cases, psychiatrists say.

But they're not always critical, shaming voices that urge people to commit violence. In fact, many people with no disorder also report hearing voices -- and they’re often neutral, even innocuous, said Lieberman, who’s also a professor and chairman of psychiatry department at Columbia University.

Thank goodness for that. I'm glad to know that my hearing voices is not unusual. If I had the time, I would tell you a funny story related to hearing voices: a telephone call I received while manning the clinic at an Air Force base. Maybe I will tell the story at a later date. It's quite a story. 

Does anybody remember the "hammer"? Tom Delay's conviction was overturned by a Texas court. I wonder if he blamed his bullying on commands he was getting from outer space?